Volvo 480 Club Europe

Where can i get a replacement whire?

So my gas guage whas working at first then it slowly started to give up on showing the amount of gas i have left and now it just showes empty all the time, idk what to look at first anyone able to help?

So soon after i baught my 480 after running the window up and down a few times it stopt working and i have to pull the window up but it slides down while im driving, i looked inside the door and saw the wire for the door is broken and twisted up, is there anyone out there with a spair window motor a...

I managed to get the lights working, whas not the switch that whas the problem but now i have a spare switch atleast, it whas a cable that whas the problem.

Yes i have tryed that but think ill need to try harder

I now know 100% it is the light switch that is the problem, now i just have to find a way to fix it.

dragonflyjewels wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 13, 2022 7:15 pm

malkontent should be able to help with lhd parts

What is that?

Where are you Ragdalf? I can help you out with a light switch... David In the north part of sweden Ah....I did wonder, given your user name :D . That means you need a LH drive headlamp switch - pretty much everyone who's been helping you here, including me, is in the UK: I only have RH headlamp swi...

dcwalker wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 06, 2022 7:24 am

Where are you Ragdalf?

I can help you out with a light switch...

David

In the north part of sweden

The pop up motors relay is the double one as in Jeff's photo above. The round relay at the triangle end of the relay box on early cars is the light control unit monitoring fur bulb failure on the headlamps and the day running lights (DRLs). The round relay isn't relevant to the pop up motors. If yo...

They relay is not round, it’s big, tall, square and even says something like pop-up on the top! Ye i know that one looks fine as far as i see but i saw the round one in that picure and i think mine might be the wrong one, think its from a 440, im not sure but its probebly not the same. My relay say...

Ah yes - should have read your first post in more detail and taken note of the fact that it's an early car - this post may be of some limited help, but James is a walking encyclopedia for the early cars and will no doubt be along in due course with far more information! I lookt at the post and i th...

One other thing to check - if you see 12V on the low current side of the pop-up relay but nothing happens then open it up and check the joints connecting the horizontal and vertical boards as per the picture below: https://i.imgur.com/OXZ0Km1.jpg If you've got a soldering iron it wouldn't hurt to r...

Ok i have now done the Brinkie Winkie dance (whas pritty fun nhl) the motors have no problem poping up and down with the dance but they dont work from inside when i try to turn on the lights, iw checked and the bolbs are all ok. And i know if u manualy putt the lights up and press the switch at the ...

Ok so i just got a 1987 volvo 480 3 weeks ago and the only problem is the pop up lights dont work, iw tested and the motors for the pop up work but thay do not go up and the light dont turn on. Id realy love to get sone help from you all.